Yvonne Baur—photographer, former HPPA frontline superstar at our Hawai'i Volcanoes NP stores, & now full-time volcano student, just reposted this so we snatched it ASAP! What an amazing shot, Yvonne! · Life and Death 🌋🌿 "The 61g flow had some really cool photo opportunities." #HVNP #HPPA #Kilauea

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

The utter inability of this piece to ask "but why does almost everyone carry gene variants increasing Alzheimer's risk? Is it possible those variants have been HEAVILY selected for? What if genes don't have only one job?" No let's do eugenics instead for money www.livescience.com/health/alzhe...

a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

Hey! That’s our Bsky friend and colleague @srheilbronner.bsky.social talking about the brain.

why are men

Some of you gave some really sassy quotes for this piece, but my favorite...well perhaps I shouldn't say which one is my favorite 💅

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Stoats are a Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, but their famous winter-white molt does have them at risk of local extirpation, along with habitat loss. They thought passenger pigeons were forever at one point too! It's never too early to work to conserve native species you care about! #2026MMM

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

Hippocampus researchers screaming crying and throwing up that their weakling brain region isn't even involved in challenging memorization and striatum is. Striatum and I simply have to laugh

Hello numerous people who joined and followed! I want to hear your neuroscience takes, but not the same old debates. There's so much we can discuss that's truly new. Here I'll start: -The brain: too big, or not big enough -Most overrated region of cortex -manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient

Four video game streamers and podcasters united to raise more than a quarter of a million dollars to support families struggling to make rent during the federal agent surge in Minnesota.

Sports gambling should be legal but you should have to go to an actual building to do it and it should be so off-putting and sad you’ll never want to do it again

The elementary school crossing guards broke into a spontaneous “Ewwww!!” when a Cybertruck drove by. It’s so over. For Elon, but also for me, as they followed up their assertion that it’s a “Car for old men” with a quickly-blurted “No offense.”

You know, cats live in the moment. Like how they never bring their phones with them to use the litterbox. Although they do run out of there at a thousand miles an hour afterwards to get back to their phones as soon as possible

Eating a delicious Hunnyz apple while reading the over 100 comments berating the author of Apple Rankings for their (justified) mediocre review of the Hunnyz apple driven almost exclusively by its dogshit y2k ass name applerankings.com/hunnyz-apple...

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Kurtagich: Dr. Murray receives a letter calling her back home from her old friend lucy Kurtagich: that's right, it's like dracula Kurtagich: except this time we're asking Kurtagich: what were the girls up to Bram Stoker:

I told my undergrads to fill their bathtubs with gasoline! Impossible to walk this back! (Unless they routinely ignore my instructions) (Which they do) Humiliating, either way!

Like robberies in broad daylight are often not recognized as such, so too for AI. The AI industry steals so blatently and openly (data, creative work, labour, resources, clean water, etc.) that many fail to see what is happening under their own noses.

Here at the Whipple building for the final day of a week of action where people from across the country came to Minneapolis to help and learn from us for when the federal government comes for their City. This isn’t over until ICE is abolished & Whipple with its inhumane conditions cease to exist. 1/

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

this is the stupidest thing and it absolutely undid me

Linking this for no reason whatsoever en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scho-Ka...

Every fascism has its dehumanized other. For technofascists, that other is humanity itself.

Being confident about what you do and don't know and not being a solo operator spanning a bunch of work beyond your capacity is a good thing. AI lets people stop doing that sensible balance between knowledge, work, and relationality.

IMO this gap in confidence around critical thought is probably *driving* some adoption of AI technologies, on account of people who lack that self confidence feel like an AI assistant will help them compete with people who know they're smart.

It's like, maybe you don't have Dunning-Kruger Syndrome now, but if you use AI, you will have soon.

First of all who knows what took place and who bit what. But if this convo could in any way lead to my being disciplined or affect my personal working conditions, I request my steward or union officer (Jean) be present at the meeting. Without representation, I choose not to answer questions tbh

This was such a delightful review, thank you so much to Broken Frontier for having a look at Brains, a comic I mostly made out of spite. I was furious at how so-called AI is being shoved at us at every turn, so mad I had to make one (1) art about it & the response has been such a wonderful surprise.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I will NOT let the low-quality tumblr era valentines die, so I made more @dropout.tv Very Important People valentines this year 💕✨

People outside of Minnesota, in case you are wondering how to help the current situation, this website has many current opportunities to donate and support people who need help in Minnesota. Help pay rent, get groceries, and provide other support for people in hiding. www.standwithminnesota.com

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Just wanted to say thanks to the many actual academics working on AI's deleterious effects on social economies and culture replying with links to their work. I'll just quote skeet them here (I'm not an academic, I'm a hacker and trans rights researcher with some skin in tech and humanities)

These established frameworks we have for decision making in complex areas requiring expertise aren't just barriers to progress. They're the product of accumulated human experience, regrets, successes and failures.

Sign seen in South Minneapolis. "FUCK ICE" "NEIGHBORHOOD OBSERVATION & RESISTANCE IN FORCE" "IF I DON’T RESIST MY NEIGHBORS WILL" February 2026

No Kings includes Draft Kings

There are still so so many agents www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/u...

I'm really asking: What is the math on all of this? If Metro Surge started Dec 1, and they claim to have deported 4,000 people, at a cost of $18 million a week, and it's been ten weeks, they show no sign of leaving, and we leave out the murders—$2billion to destroy us? kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

From Glamour magazine, actual journalism: "In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...

There is no way to fix the core problem, which is that the statistical production of symbols by definition is not based on their meaning

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.